NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Schaeffer, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5784. This project aims to better characterize tectonic activity and evolution across the study region through improved monitoring of earthquakes and GPS motions. Using a temporary network of seismometers, we will produce an updated catalogue of earthquakes targeting more precise locations and depths, frequency, and magnit...

Principal Investigator: McKee, Lorne
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5415. The objective is to incorporate two existing seismic stations installed and currently operated by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) into the Canadian National Seismograph Network (CNSN), where NRCan, through the Canadian Hazard Information Service (CHIS), would operate and maintain the stati...

Principal Investigator: Audet, Pascal
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Summary: This project is aimed at understanding the structure and evolution of the crust and mantle beneath Banks Island in the western Arctic by analyzing new seismic data collected from an array of broadband seismic stations. The objective is to provide information on crustal and mantle structures to determine whether Banks Island forms a rifted margin, or forms the northern extension of the Canadian Shi...

Principal Investigator: Dyck, Brendan
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The two main objectives for this project are to a) determine the strength of the lower crust, and b) investigate how stress varies across a typical lower crustal shear zone. These objectives will be achieved by examining a transect through an ancient lower-crustal shear zone. Two weeks of fieldwork will be carried out at the Great Slave Lake Shear Zone to acquire the appropriate samples to exp...

Principal Investigator: Woodward, Robert
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: This project consists of a large deployment of ground motion sensors (290 total) throughout Alaska and western Canada; 44 located in Yukon Territory and 9 in the Northwest Territory. (See www.usarray.org/alaska and the attached map.) Each station senses the ground movement from distant earthquakes and sends data via satellite or radio modem to a central receiving point in San Diego. The purpose...

Principal Investigator: Audet, Pascal
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The objectives of this research project are: 1) to improve the detection and characterization of earthquakes occurring within the northern Canadian Cordillera (comprising the Mackenzie and Richardson Mountains) and surrounding areas, which is one the most seismically active areas of Canada; and 2) to study the deep Earth structures to understand the formation and evolution of the Cordillera. To th...

Principal Investigator: Lambert, Anthony
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To measure crustal deformation in North America leading to a better understanding of earthquakes and plate tectonics. Measurements will be made by the technique of long-baseline interferometry using a mobile radio telescope. (Continued from last year.)...

Principal Investigator: Langley, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To determine VLBL (Very Long Base Line) interferometry between a number of radio telescopes and to study how, why and where earthquakes occur....

Principal Investigator: Lambert, Anthony
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To measure crustal deformation in North America leading to a better understanding of earthquakes and plate tectonics. Measurements will be made by the technique of long-baseline interferometry using a mobile radio telescope....